Flickr Fail

So I discovered a disappointing fact about Flickr just now: if you are using the free account, you only have access to your 200 recent photos. The user's photostream, the recent photo feed for Flickr users, only goes back 200 photos. That's not too bad, but as soon as photos get past that 200 recent photos mark, they get taken out of every Set (basically an album) and even though it seems they retain there tags, you can no longer use your Tag Cloud found on your page to get to these photos. They're basically marooned. The only redeeming fact I could find is that if you have the direct URL to the photo, then you can still access it. However, the fact remains that all associations from the user's page to the photo are cut. There is no way that I could find that you can go to a user page, then find a photo that's older than 200 photos. I find this frustrating and disappointing. I've even had a Flickr Pro account for a year, uploaded many photos to it, then decided to not renew my Pro account with them. Afterwards, it was the same thing, all my photos were cut off from me, I have no idea how to get access to them. So basically Flickr wants you to have a Pro account for life: it's the only way I can see that a long term relationship can happen between this service and it's users. Personally, without being able to trust Flickr with my photos, I feel no desire whatsoever to continue giving them my photos. Flickr, you failed.